GNU nano
GNU nano (Nano's ANOther editor, or Not ANOther editor) is an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor.
| Tags | Text Editors |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | Windows Windows Windows Windows POSIX BSD GNU/Hurd HP-UX IRIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 17 Feb 2009 07:33
Changes: Issues with the new sped-up syntax highlighting code were corrected. Other fixes include configure-time detection of groff HTML support before attempting to generate the HTML version of man pages. Using ~ or ~username syntax in .nanorc should now work again. Also, nano will now only ask for one acknowledgment of errors it encounters when parsing nanorc files, and a new -q (--quiet) flag will silence these messages altogether.
- 08 Feb 2009 07:06
Changes: This release includes some long overdue performance improvements in syntax color highlighting, the ability to abort running searches (useful mainly when editing very large files), and the ability to use nano like a pager for viewing standard input (i.e. "nano -"). Additionally, there are gentoo syntax highlighting updates and fixes for issues with reading files in a directory with strange parent directory permissions. The key bindings code was also substantially changed in order to be more ISO-C compatible.
- 10 Nov 2008 21:56
Changes: This release includes a new check for external modifications when saving a file, some code and documentation cleanups, and more bugfixes for the new undo code.
- 06 Sep 2008 21:11
Changes: This release only updates the translations, backing out the translations that were updated in 2.0.8 which were copied from the 2.1 series. That "translation backport" unfortunately caused enough problems that a full release is being made to fix it. If you do not use alternative language support, however, feel free to skip this release as there really are no other changes.
- 31 Aug 2008 07:08
Changes: This release contains a better fix for incorrectly reported successful writes on full filesystems, more helpful messages when an internal error occurs in the undo code, and fixes for various combinations of configure-time options and compiler flags. Also included is new support for changing the rc file name at configure time, and using GNU-style regexes for word-boundaries on systems that do not support them natively, as well as the ever popular translation updates.
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Recent commentsty
Nice thanks.. i love it :)
excellent performance on very large files
Congratulations for the nano developers! A long time nano user for small tasks, I discovered today the syntax highlighting abilities and all the features that can be activated with the .nanorc file. This is simply amazing. Nano also saved my day when it allowed me to edit a very large text file that neither SciTE (an excellent editor by itself, that I use for writing code since it does auto-complete in a very useful way) nor powerful vim (in the user-friendly Cream incarnation) wanted to handle gracefully.
Having auto-completion would push nano at the top of the text editors list for me. It is almost there with all the features and its no-nonsense interface. Thank you very much.
Cosmin
Replace Capability Question
Hello,
Just wondering is there capability to do replacements with special characters such as newlines, and EOF? Kinda like doing s/^/ / in vi.
Re: Scroll with cursor still broken
> The bug: - When at the very bottom of
> the edit window, do_wrap goes berserk
> and
> puts the cursor somewhere bad;
> subsequent keystrokes crash the program
> (14) [FIXED, mostly]
>
> is still present for me and is a show
> stopper. This problem makes the editor
> unusable. While it does not crash for
> me, the screen is so jumbled that one
> has to exit and start over being careful
> to use only page up and down untill
> reaching the point of edit, then resume
> with page up and down. Big pain.
> Sometimes even page up and down foul the
> screen.
>
> This is present in both the stable and
> development versions. It occurs on all
> my linux boxes - Fedora Core 2 and 3,
> SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 and SLES 9.
Please consider emailing the development team about this, or filing a bug report. The Savannah page for nano is at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/nano.
Scroll with cursor still broken
The bug: - When at the very bottom of the edit window, do_wrap goes berserk and
puts the cursor somewhere bad; subsequent keystrokes crash the program
(14) [FIXED, mostly]
is still present for me and is a show stopper. This problem makes the editor unusable. While it does not crash for me, the screen is so jumbled that one has to exit and start over being careful to use only page up and down untill reaching the point of edit, then resume with page up and down. Big pain. Sometimes even page up and down foul the screen.
This is present in both the stable and development versions. It occurs on all my linux boxes - Fedora Core 2 and 3, SuSE 9.1 and 9.2 and SLES 9.